How it All Started Once upon a time there was a sweet shop next door to an infants’ school. One day a big poster appeared in the shop window advertising a new chocolate bar. It looked scrumptious and all the children would stop on their way to school and drool over...
I WAS STANDING at the kitchen sink the other day – an ageing Metro Man doing the washing up – and I was idly thinking about the causality of phenomena as a perception of reality. Now, I must admit, the causality of phenomena as a perception of reality isn’t...
Analysis of The Man Chapter 3 Continued A Man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation”. Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900 Who Caused My Bad Luck? No one can deny that Nietzsche had his fair...
It can safely be said, I think, as I wash foodscraps from my dishes, wondering how many billions of sub-atomic particles I’m consigning down the drain, that the theory of the phenomenal or physical world as the sole reality has hinged on one hitherto undeniable...
Chinese Philosophy Pre Dates the Ancient Greek Philosophers Recently I was asked to write an article for the Australia China Foundation Association (ACFA) web site about Asian and particularly, Chinese Philosophy and why it has been misunderstood in the west for...
You may remember the genre of the kitchen sink dramas and movies of the late fifties and early sixties. The rather pompous middle-class attitudes and characteristics of the previous ages were suddenly shoved aside, and we saw what real life for so many people really...
